Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles and polite political opinions. This is incorrect. If you want to get New England right, just imagine a giant mullet in paint-stained pants and a Red Sox hat being pushed into the back of a cruiser after a bar fight.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

Candidates don’t want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.